Millie qualified as a social worker in 1994 and has worked as a social worker, team manager and children’s services manager within local authority children’s services and adult social care. She has worked across a range of disciplines including safeguarding and child protection, HIV, palliative care, child asylum and child trafficking, leaving care and for a specialist FGM and safeguarding service.

She took up her present role at Brighton & Hove City Council in November 2020. She is also a practice educator and delivers training on anti-racist practice and cultural competence within social work and more widely.